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Shantideva Day of Mindfulness: TRUE LOVE

Saturday, February 15 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Morning Birds Sangha invites you to a Day of Mindfulness at Shantideva — bringing the Plum Village community in Northern California together for a chance to go as a river and practice mindfulness as one sangha.

Dharma teacher Jo-ann Rosen will be visiting from Ukiah and will offer a talk on the antidote to fear and anger: True Love. Jo-ann will bring teachings from the Dharma and neuroscience to her talk. She will invite us to contemplate the Four Heavenly Abodes during the day: Compassion, loving-kindness, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. (These are also known as the Brahmaviharas: karuna, metta/maitri, mudita, and upekka/upeksha.)

The location is Thich Tu Luc’s Shantideva Monastery. It’s about an hour’s drive from Berkeley, SF, or San Jose, or a 15-minute drive from Castro Valley BART.

Parking is limited. If you plan to attend, please sign up and check the carpool possibilities here.

Please bring:

  • Layers, sunscreen, hat
  • Something vegetarian to eat for lunch
  • Something to share for tea/snacks (optional)
  • A friend or two! (carpooling is advised as there is limited parking)

Tentative agenda:

  • 9:30 am Parking
  • 9:45 am Arrive and settle in
  • 10:00 Introductions Dylan
  • 10:15 Sitting meditation + chanting
  • 10:45 Short break
  • 11:00 Dharma talk
  • 12:30 Break/prepare lunch
  • 12:45 pm Mindful lunch
  • 1:30 Dharma sharing
  • 2:30 Choice: tea/chat OR walking meditation on your own
  • 3:30 End of day
Free Donations for the teaching or for Shantideva are welcome

Dylan Tweney

+1 650-315-9607

Shantideva Monastery

30345 Palomares Road
Castro Valley, California 94552 United States + Google Map
Register here

Being Peace: A Day of Mindfulness Hosted by Home Within Sangha

Calligraphed words reading "being peace" inside a black ink enso

Saturday, January 18 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Calligraphed words reading "being peace" inside a black ink enso

Shantideva Monastery, Castro Valley

Thich Nhat Hanh taught that “there is no way to peace; peace is the way.” You are invited to join us for a day of practice on the topic of “Being Peace” – grounding in Plum Village practices and cultivating our inner peace to offer ourselves and our communities. 

We will gather for sitting and walking meditation, mindful movement and eating, Dharma sharing, and to listen to a teaching by Thay.

Logistics:

  • Please bring your own vegetarian lunch. 
  • Please arrive by 9:45am, so that we can begin sitting meditation at 10am.
  • Address: Shantideva Monastery, 30345 Palomares Road, Castro Valley, California 94552

In the spirit of cross-sangha connection across the Bay Area, this Day of Mindfulness will be hosted by San Francisco’s Home Within Sangha.

If your sangha is curious about hosting a Day of Mindfulness at Shantideva this year, please email Dylan at dylan@tweney.com.

We hope to see you there!

With a deep bow,

Nicole, Kat, and Miles from the Home Within Sangha

Free Donations welcome

Shantideva Monastery

30345 Palomares Road
Castro Valley, California 94552 United States + Google Map

Ceremony for Thích Nhất Hạnh’s 3rd Anniversary

Photo of Thích Nhất Hạnh

Sunday, January 12 @ 9:30 am – 2:00 pm

Ven. Thích Tu Luc invites the community to a bilingual ceremony to commemorate Thích Nhất Hạnh on the third anniversary of his continuation.

Schedule:

  • 9:30 AM – Arrival of attendees
  • 10:00 AM – Monastics enter the Main Hall
  • 11:30 AM – Lunch & Adjourn

Monastics Present:

Compassion Meditation Center: Thầy Từ Lực, Ni sư Ngộ Tánh, SC Tịnh Minh, SC
Phổ Thanh (more to be added later).

Third Memorial Day Service for Sý Ông Làng Mai (1)Download
Free Donations welcome

Pho Tu Temple

510.481.1577

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Shantideva Monastery

30345 Palomares Road
Castro Valley, California 94552 United States + Google Map

Vesak Day of Mindfulness

Saturday, May 10 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Please join us for a bilingual Vietnamese-English celebration of Buddha’s Birthday (Vesak), including the ceremony of bathing the Baby Buddha.

More details TBA!

Free By donation

Dylan Tweney

+1 650-315-9607

Shantideva Monastery

30345 Palomares Road
Castro Valley, California 94552 United States + Google Map

Shantideva Sangha Gathering

December 14, 2024 @ 9:30 am – 3:00 pm

We invite anyone in the community to join our practice from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on December 14.

We aspire that Shantideva will become a resource and anchor for our broad and diverse Bay Area and Northern California community. 

Gathering at Shantideva is a chance for people from our many different sanghas to practice together in friendship, and to create opportunities for honest and vulnerable discussion.

Please email Dylan if you’re planning to attend. (This is not required, but if a lot of people are coming, it can be helpful to plan for parking.)

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Veteran’s Day Weekend Retreat

November 8, 2024 @ 3:00 pm – November 11, 2024 @ 12:00 pm

We are delighted to invite you to register for the Winter 2024 retreat held at the Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, California (80 miles from the Bay Area). The retreat will take place from Saturday, November 9 – Monday, November 11, with an option to arrive on Friday, November 8 for an additional cost. All retreat meals will be provided by the wonderful chef Tod Nysether.

The theme is “Creativity as Refuge.”

We are excited to share that Maxine Hong Kingston has agreed to lead the writing workshop on Friday, together with Earll Kingston and Wendy Johnson.

NOTE: This retreat is now full. You can still register to be added to the waitlist. We will invite registrants from the waitlist if others are unable to attend.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/agLxDbgBTMajWefu8

Please fill out the information requested in this Google Form. The retreat organizers, Dylan and Melanie, will review all completed registration forms and confirm your waitlist/registration status. When we do, we will send details on payment and lodging. 

We currently estimate costs of $150 per night for dorm room beds and $100 per night for camping/futons. (Camping in your own tent, or sleeping on floor pads, will only be available if we have a sufficient number of people registered — we need to fill the beds first.)

We aspire to create a retreat body that represents the diversity of the many people and communities practicing in the Plum Village lineage, including race/ethnicity, age, and gender. Please be patient with us as we do our best to accommodate your needs and to create the conditions for a supportive and inclusive space.

Our draft health plan is outlined in the registration form, but here it is for ready reference:

1. We will request everyone to rapid test negative on their day of arrival. 
2. We will leave windows open and run HEPA air filters wherever possible.
3. We will structure activities to make it comfortable to mask at any time and to eat outdoors.
4. We will ask anyone with symptoms to (K)N95 mask, even if rapid testing negative.
5. We will provide a supply of high-quality (K)N95 masks and extra rapid tests.
6. If you test positive at the retreat, we will ask you to leave early or self-isolate, depending on conditions.

$300 – $400 (estimated)

Dylan Tweney

+1 650-315-9607

Shantideva Monastery

30345 Palomares Road
Castro Valley, California 94552 United States + Google Map